J. P. Dancing Bear is editor for the American Poetry Journal and Dream Horse Press. Bear also hosts the weekly hour-long poetry show, Out of Our Minds, on public station, KKUP and available as podcasts. His book Inner Cities of Gulls (SalmonPoetry, 2010) won the 2010 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles National Literary Award for poetry. His latest book of poetry is Family of Marsupial Centaurs and other birthday poems (Iris Press, 2012). His twelfth collection of poetry, The Abandoned Eye, will be published soon by FutureCycle Press.